TO THE SCIENTIFIC-TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY

I request answers to the following questions:

1. What quantity of applications for inventions has been examined since the formation of the department, and what quantity of unexamined applications currently exists.

2. What quantity has been 1) recognized as useful, 2) put into practice (name the principal ones).

3. The procedure and timeframe for examining each invention and the further direction of the matter.

4. Is it possible for any institution to put into practice any invention without the conclusion of the department of inventions of the Scientific-Technical Department.

5. Is the department of inventions of the NTO aware of

TO THE CC OF THE RCP(b). 14 NOVEMBER 1920

a) the invention of a substitute for shoe leather made by Baryshnikov, and if so, what action has been taken on this matter,

b) the invention*

Who heads the department of inventions? 11

13/XI-20. Lenin, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

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